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Agricultural Labor and Technological Change in the Yemen Arab Republic

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In the early 1970s, rising petroleum prices brought new wealth to the major oil-exporting Arab states. This funded ambitious development projects, but these were impeded by an acute shortage of manpower. The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), with a predominantly agricultural population estimated at 6–7.5 million, soon became their principal labor supplier and by 1975, 24–42% of Yemen’s male labor force was working abroad.

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Tutwiler, R. (1990). Agricultural Labor and Technological Change in the Yemen Arab Republic. In: Tully, D. (eds) Labor and Rainfed Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0561-0_11

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